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Concentration of lymph node aspirate improves the sensitivity of acid fast smear microscopy for the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis in Jimma, southwest Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLN) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The cytomorphological features of lymph node smears have reduced specificity for the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
Mulualem Tadesse, Gemeda Abebe, Ketema Abdissa, Alemayehu Bekele, Mesele Bezabih, Ludwig Apers, Robert Colebunders, Leen Rigouts   +7 more
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Lymph nodes—The neglected battlefield in tuberculosis

PLOS Pathogens, 2020
Lymph nodes, particularly thoracic lymph nodes, are among the most common sites of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). However, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection in these organs is understudied. Aside from being sites of initiation of the adaptive immune system, lymph nodes also serve as niches of Mtb growth and persistence.
Sharie Keanne C. Ganchua, Alexander G. White, Edwin C. Klein, JoAnne L. Flynn   +3 more
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Investigation of the high rates of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia reveals no single driving factor and minimal evidence for zoonotic transmission of Mycobacterium bovis infection [PDF]

, 2015
Ethiopia, a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country, reports one of the highest incidence rates of extra-pulmonary TB dominated by cervical lymphadenitis (TBLN).
Wondale Mekonnen, Rea Tschopp, Gordon, Stephen V, Firdessa, Rebuma, Kiros, T, Yamuah, Lawrence, Gagneux, Sebastien, Habtamu, M, Hussein, J, Hewinson, G, Araya Mengistu, Aseffa, Abraham, Hailu, Elena, Elena Hailu, Gadisa, Endalamaw, Robertson, BD, Zinsstag, J, Hussein, Jemal, Brian D Robertson, Esther Schelling, Berg, Stefan, Tschopp, R, Aseffa, A, Rebuma Firdessa, Glyn Hewinson, Kiros, Teklu, Berg, S, Stefan Berg, Robertson, Brian D., Shiferaw Bekele, Mengistu, A, Meseret Habtamu, Gordon, SV, Abraham Aseffa, Lawrence Yamuah, Yohannes Derese, Firdessa, R, Erenso, G, Stephen V Gordon, Gadisa, E, Yamuah, L, Gumi, Balako, Habtamu, Meseret, Gumi, B, Robertson, Brian D, Balako Gumi, Derese, Y, Bekele, S, Gobena Ameni, Mekonnen, W, Mengistu, Araya, Hailu, E, Tschopp, Rea, Girume Erenso, Erenso, Girume, Hewinson, Glyn, Endalamaw Gadisa, Gagneux, S, Derese, Yohannes, Mekonnen, Wondale, Bekele, Shiferaw, Sebastien Gagneux, Ameni, G, Zinsstag, Jakob, Schelling, E, Ameni, Gobena, Schelling, Esther, Gordon, Stephen V., Jemal Hussein, Jakob Zinsstag, Teklu Kiros   +70 more
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Left-sided portal hypertension caused by peripancreatic lymph node tuberculosis misdiagnosed as pancreatic cancer: a case report and literature review

BMC Gastroenterology, 2020
Background Left-sided portal hypertension (LSPH) is an extremely rare clinical syndrome, and it is the only form of curable portal hypertension. It is primarily caused by pancreatic disease, and is associated with complications that cause spleen vein ...
Dajun Yu, Xiaolan Li, Jianping Gong, Jinzheng Li, Fei Xie, Jiejun Hu   +5 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
The yield from aspirating lymph nodes and pleural fluid for diagnosing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is unknown. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from lymph node or pleural fluid aspirates of 21 patients; 7 (33%) cultures grew XDR ...
Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi, François J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, N. Sarita Shah   +9 more
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A rare case of squamous inclusion cyst in cervical lymph node

Heliyon, 2020
A 38-year-old man, with no history of malignancy, was found to have a 2 cm jugular lymph node, for which a lymph node tuberculosis was suspected. The specimen revealed a cystic structure lined by mature keratinizing squamous epithelium with a prominent ...
Y. Houcine, A. Sassi, M. Mlika, H. Yassine, F. Mezni   +4 more
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Lymph node tuberculosis presenting as appendicitis

Clinical Infection in Practice, 2023
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis can present in various ways and often mimics more common presentations. This case of appendicitis ended in a definitive microbiological diagnosis of M. tuberculosis, and shows the diagnostic challenges and techniques available
Thomas S. Braby, Mark T.M. Roberts
doaj   +1 more source

A late presentation of isolated lymph node tuberculosis postintravesical BCG therapy for superficial bladder cancer: a novel case

, 2014
Intravesical BCG immunotherapy is commonly used in the treatment of superficial bladder cancer. We recount the case of an 82-year-old British man who completed a course of BCG immunotherapy in 2011 for superficial bladder cancer, and presented in January
Madaan, S., Varga, B., Tasleem, A. M., Mahmalji, W.   +3 more
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Diagnostic value of CD4+, CD8+ and CD103+ lymphocytes in mediastinal lymph node specimens obtained via endobronchial ultrasonography for sarcoidosis

, 2020
Introduction: The aim of the present study is to investigate the diagnostic value of the CD4+, CD8+ and CD103+ lymphocyte sub-groups in mediastinal lymph nodes, as an adjunctive marker in sarcoidosis.
KÜVER, SONER UMUT
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Tuberculosis of Cystic Duct Lymph Node Associated with Cholecystitis

The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2021
Tuberculosis of the cystic duct lymph node is very rare. Only four cases have been reported in the literature. This paper presents the case of a young male patient with a tuberculous cystic duct lymph node and chronic cholecystitis, who was diagnosed ...
Tae Gil Heo, Seong Woo Hong, Yeo Goo Chang, Woo Yong Lee, Haeng Jin Oh, Kyeong Woon Choi, Yun Kyung Kang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source